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Information should be supplied as to the number of cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum notified during the year in which— (a) vision was unimpaired,
5; (b) vision was impaired, nil; (c) vision was lost, nil; (d) the
patient died, 1; (e) the patient removed from the district, 1; (f) the patient
was still under treatment at the end of the year, nil; (g) (any other
category), 1. Total, 8. This total should agree with the figure given at*
in column 2 of the Statement above.
13. Home Nursing.
(a) Number of nurses employed at the end of the year for the nursing of
expectant mothers and children under 5 years of age, maternity
nursing, or the nursing of puerperal fever: (i) by the Council, nil;
(ii) by Voluntary Associations, the time of 1½ nurses.
(b) Total number of cases attended during the year by these nurses, 49.
14. Midwives.
(a) Number practising in the area served by the Council for maternity
and child welfare at the end of the year, 20.
(b) Number (i) employed by the Council, nil; (ii) subsidised by the
Council, nil; (iii) employed by Voluntary Associations, nil.
(c) Number of cases during the year in which the Council paid or
contributed to the fee of a midwife, nil.
15. Maternal Deaths.
(a) Number of women who died in, or in consequence of, childbirth in
the area served by the Council for maternity and child welfare
during the year (i) from sepsis, 3; (ii) from other causes, 1.
(b) Number of these cases which died: (i) at home, nil; (ii) in
tions, 4.
16. Administration of Part I. of the Children Act, 1908, as amended by
Part V. of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932.
(a) Number of persons on the Register who were receiving children for
reward at the end of the year, 10.
(b) Number of children on the Register: (i) at the end of the year, 14;
(ii) who died during the year, nil; (iii) on whom inquests were held
during the year, nil.
(c) Number of Infant Protection Visitors at the end of the year who
were: (i) Health Visitors, 6; (ii) Female, other than Health
Visitors, nil; (iii) Male, nil.
(d) Number of persons (in addition to or in lieu of Visitors under (c)
above) or societies authorised to visit under the proviso to Section
2 (2) of the Act of 1908, nil.
(e) Proceedings taken during the year: No. of cases, nil; Act and
Section under which proceedings were taken, nil.
(f) Number of cases in which the local authority has given a sanction
during the year: (i) under (a) of Section 3 of the Act of 1908, nil;
(ii) under (b) of Section 3 of the Act of 1908, nil; (iii) under (c) of
section 3 of the Act of 1908, nil.
(g) Number of orders obtained during the year under Section 67 of the
Act of 1932: (i) from a court of summary jurisdiction, nil; (ii) from
a single justice, nil.